OT: Chicago Bears TE Zach Miller's recovery
Stumbled upon this story online, and, recalling the gruesomeness of his injury, had to watch and see where things stood...
http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=24715544
WARNING: some unsettling imagery.
P.S....good on the team for paying him this season.
January 30th, 2019 at 11:15 PM ^
For everyone that’s bitching about the Saints getting robbed, you should watch the Miller touchdown against the Saints that got called back by replay review on the play he broke his leg.
While it wasn’t a worse mistake because it was just a regular season game, it’s worse because it was a mistake made after going to review.
January 31st, 2019 at 8:13 AM ^
You proved your point. You know how to embed a link.
January 31st, 2019 at 8:21 AM ^
Right? He embedded the shit out of that link!!
January 31st, 2019 at 9:17 AM ^
all that build up and the damn link doesn't even work. Sad.
January 31st, 2019 at 9:40 AM ^
I think they were aiming for this.
(Watch me screw it up now.)
January 31st, 2019 at 9:01 AM ^
+1 for the longest embedded link I've ever seen on the board
January 31st, 2019 at 11:48 AM ^
Oh yeah - it is.
January 31st, 2019 at 2:32 PM ^
Longest you've seen on the board, or longest you've seen on the internet?
January 31st, 2019 at 9:46 AM ^
My understanding of Miller's situation is that he was in the final year of his deal when injured and thus would've been without contract rights in 2018. But the Bears paid him a league minimum salary so he would at least have something (not to mention the PT bills covered).
Apologies if this is covered in your link. Admittedly, I didn't read the entire embed.
January 31st, 2019 at 2:32 PM ^
it didn't even read the full link.
January 31st, 2019 at 10:18 AM ^
Wasn't Miller's injury pretty similar to Grant Newsome's? Damage to the artery, chance of losing the leg, etc.? Scary stuff.
January 31st, 2019 at 7:39 PM ^
Yes, though Miller's was non-contact.
January 31st, 2019 at 12:35 PM ^
I'm amazed at the recent gruesomeness of knee injures the past 5 years or so. From Grant Newsome, Teddy Bridgewater, jaylon smith, to Zach Miller. I can't remember a period of time where so many guys had nerve/blood vessel damage to their knee from an injury, contact or non contact.
Maybe it's just put out in the news more these days.
January 31st, 2019 at 5:09 PM ^
As far as the non-contact injuries, to a certain extent it's probably the result of players getting too big and strong. I imagine the human body is only designed to support a certain amount of extra muscle weight while still jumping and landing at various unpredictable angles.
I'm pretty sure a big reason that Bo Jackson's injury was so catastrophic was that his frame was so overburdened from all the extra weight and strain placed on it, that it basically broke when he landed on it at an odd, but seemingly harmless, angle.